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Jeremy Crutchley is an actor with a career spanning more than 40 years in which he has played a vast range of different characters on stage and screen. He recently co-wrote and produced a short film DEMUS, currently in post-production and further development, for which he also composed and performed the original soundtrack music. He is British-born and educated and lives in the U.S.A.
Complementing and in contrast to his Theatre and Film repertoire, Jeremy is also a highly experienced voice-over artist in film, commercials and animation - the most recent being INFINITY TRAIN on Cartoon Network. Recent TV appearances include the younger and older Dr Stan Ginsburg in FALLING WATER, Doorhaus in BLINDSPOT and Senator Buchanan in TAKEN. He plays the Puritan Magistrate Hathorne in SALEM, appeared as Robert in WOMEN IN LOVE and the pirate Morley in BLACK SAILS. Feature Film includes DOOMSDAY, LORD OF WAR, SPUD and lead roles in RETRIBUTION and FLYTRAP for which he was nominated Best Lead Actor at the London International Film Festival 2016, the movie winning Best Feature Film at the ECU Independent Film Festival in Paris 2015 and the REMI Award in Houston USA. With a long history in Theatre, his performance as 'The Other’ in the critically acclaimed SACRED ELEPHANT at the legendary La MaMa Theatre received rave reviews in New York, Cape Town and Los Angeles. |
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In the role of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf in I AM MY OWN WIFE, the Pulitzer prize-winning Broadway hit by Doug Wright, Jeremy won 2 Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards for Best Actor and Best Solo Performance.
For The Royal Shakespeare Company he played King Alonso in THE TEMPEST at Stratford-Upon-Avon with a sell-out UK national tour. His portrayal of Shylock in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE also won the Fleur Du Cap Best Actor Award. In a year of Repertory at the renowned Orange Tree Theatre (Off-West-End), he played 8 roles in 11 productions ranging from classic to contemporary plays. He memorably created the role of Dr. Drabble in the black comedy THE DICE HOUSE, transferring from the Edinburgh Festival for a successful London run in The West-End.
Jeremy first made an impact in the 80’s as Slim in Sam Shepard’s COWBOY MOUTH at the well-known MARKET Theatre, then later as Alan Strang in Peter Shaffer’s EQUUS. He has also given award-winning performances of such diverse characters as Bessmertny in SARCOPHAGUS, Song Liling in M.BUTTERFLY, and H.R.H. The Duke of Windsor in the Solo-show I WAS KING.
A self-taught guitarist and always a rocker at heart, he wrote and played the music & lyrics for his own Rock Theatre work BLOODBREATH ANAESTHETIC (1978), SLOPER (’82), and composed and performed original material for Brian Aldiss’ BROTHERS OF THE HEAD (’84). He played Dr Frank’n’Furter in the original cast when THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW finally hit South Africa in 1992, . His blues-rock music surfaced again in 2010 when he wrote and recorded his first studio album, titled RELEASE, for which he also conceived and directed a music video. He named his band The Standing Wave. He has recently reintroduced his musical ideas into the current soundtrack for the short film DEMUS. For some info on Jeremy's music- click here.
For The Royal Shakespeare Company he played King Alonso in THE TEMPEST at Stratford-Upon-Avon with a sell-out UK national tour. His portrayal of Shylock in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE also won the Fleur Du Cap Best Actor Award. In a year of Repertory at the renowned Orange Tree Theatre (Off-West-End), he played 8 roles in 11 productions ranging from classic to contemporary plays. He memorably created the role of Dr. Drabble in the black comedy THE DICE HOUSE, transferring from the Edinburgh Festival for a successful London run in The West-End.
Jeremy first made an impact in the 80’s as Slim in Sam Shepard’s COWBOY MOUTH at the well-known MARKET Theatre, then later as Alan Strang in Peter Shaffer’s EQUUS. He has also given award-winning performances of such diverse characters as Bessmertny in SARCOPHAGUS, Song Liling in M.BUTTERFLY, and H.R.H. The Duke of Windsor in the Solo-show I WAS KING.
A self-taught guitarist and always a rocker at heart, he wrote and played the music & lyrics for his own Rock Theatre work BLOODBREATH ANAESTHETIC (1978), SLOPER (’82), and composed and performed original material for Brian Aldiss’ BROTHERS OF THE HEAD (’84). He played Dr Frank’n’Furter in the original cast when THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW finally hit South Africa in 1992, . His blues-rock music surfaced again in 2010 when he wrote and recorded his first studio album, titled RELEASE, for which he also conceived and directed a music video. He named his band The Standing Wave. He has recently reintroduced his musical ideas into the current soundtrack for the short film DEMUS. For some info on Jeremy's music- click here.
